Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans succeed in pinning the Russians before they reach Smolensk, the Red Army may still attempt more drives farther north. But in spite of those drives, the Germans will have succeeded on the northern front, as they had down south, in solidifying lines which had become dangerously liquid. Without Smolensk, the Russians cannot hope for really important gains in the north. When the lines and Russia's muddy earth are both solid again, then one side or the other will doubtless try, try again...
...Russians will have a hard time reaching Smolensk from the east and north before German counteroffensive reserves reach the area from the west and south. Between the Russian spearheads and the city lies a formidable system of German forts hinged on the town of Yartsevo. If those forts were to be backed up by German reserves moved up from the south, Russian chances of taking Smolensk would be small. "It is necessary," wrote New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker from Moscow, "to keep a tight check on the impulse to assume that Smolensk is directly threatened with assault...
...impediment to freedom has been the failure of the Indian National Congress party and the Moslem League to reach a common ground which would give India internal peace with her freedom. Last week, despite the differences, the Moslem League rose to the defense of the Congress and answered the White Paper. The League's paper, Dawn, remarked that it was not fair to present one side of the case while the defendant was held silent behind bars. "For the Viceroy to be both prosecutor and judge carries its own commentary...
...Individual selfishness, a great desire on both sides for its full 16 ounces of its pound of flesh, and the desire to wrangle over small matters to the injury of the great multitude of workers, in my judgment, will make it impossible to reach an understanding...
...thawed to nothing the ill-disciplined army it had held together. But by that time the brutal nobility of a machine had made its dent in history: "The fall of Almeida was the beginning of that ebb tide which was to continue until the Allies should reach Paris. And Almeida fell because of the success of the revolt of the North. And it was the gun which was the cause of that success...